Abela, M. “A new direction? The “mainstreaming” of sustainability reporting” (2022) Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal DOI: 10.1108/SAMPJ-06-2021-0201 Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the current developments to “mainstream” and standardise sustainability reporting and the consequences of those changes. Those changes give rise to the colonisation of sustainability reporting through …
Tim Christiaens (2022) Biomedical technocracy, the networked public sphere and the biopolitics of COVID-19: notes on the Agamben affair, Culture, Theory and Critique, DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2022.2099919 ABSTRACT Giorgio Agamben’s public interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic against emergency measures like lockdowns, obligatory vaccinations and the prescribed use of masks have been highly controversial. I argue that Agamben’s …
Géraldine Mossière (2022). Religious Conversions and New Spiritual Economies. In: Mossière, G. (eds) New Spiritualties and the Cultures of Well-being. In Book Series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6_4 Abstract In this chapter, I transpose the concept of moral economies into the domain of contemporary spiritualities, building on …
Schwendtner, T. The Genealogy of Nietzsche – From a Phenomenological Perspective (2022) Philobiblon, 27 (1), pp. 145-174. DOI: 10.26424/philobib.2022.27.1.07 Abstract According to Foucault, the purpose of the Nietzschean genealogy is not to “restore an unbroken continuity”, on the contrary, it is to show dispersion, error, accident, “to follow the complex course of descent”. Contrary to …
Szreter, S. How Seriously Should we Take Universal Basic Income? (2022) Political Quarterly DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.13169 Abstract Is universal basic income (UBI) a policy idea whose time has come? Recent historical scholarship now enables us to comprehend the twentieth century evolution of this and similar ideas. UBI is intriguing in having vociferous backers drawn both from …
Call for Papers: Special Issue “Foucault, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability” for the journal Sustainability Print Special Issue Flyer Special Issue Editors Special Issue Information Keywords Published Papers A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section “Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability“. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2022 Special …
Nguyet Nguyen, M. Navigating academic mentorship as active, knowing, and moral subjects (2022) Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 30 (4), pp. 434-453. DOI: 10.1080/13611267.2022.2091196 Abstract Drawing on Foucault’s governmentality, this study examines five academic mentors’ narratives of their experiences in a Vietnamese university. The data collected through semi-structured interviews show how the participants responded …
27/11/1967 – Rai Teche. Intervista a Michel Foucault in occasione della pubblicazione in italiano di «Les mots et les choses, une archéologie des sciences humaines», 1966 («Le parole e le cose. Un’archeologia delle scienze umane», trad. it. 1967). “Archeologica” è infatti la procedura con la quale Foucault tenta di ricostruire le condizioni di possibilità, la …
Mora-Rioja, A. The horror of death: A Foucauldian reading of power relations in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now (2022) Philologica Canariensia, 28, pp. 55-70. DOI: 10.20420/Phil.Can.2022.467 Abstract Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness (1899) addresses the brutality underlying Europe’s colonisation of Africa. Its film adaptation, Apocalypse Now (1979), shows the US Army’s radical practices …
Corinto, G.L. Comics, Words and Images, from Buffalmacco to Magritte a Problem of Transition (2022) Human Evolution, 37 (1-2), pp. 17-28. DOI: 10.14673/HE2022121094 Abstract Comics became a topic for interdisciplinary academic studies besides the specialist field of non-scholar experts. Anthropology, sociology, and geography dedicated increasing attention to comics as an intriguing and dense of meaning …
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